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Water for Life –
Catchment Care
Resource Pack Year 7
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What is Water for Life?
Water for Life is a call to teachers and students to discover and investigate their local
waterway with the aim to inspire Catchment carers now and for the future. It is a supported
class inquiry for grade 2 and grade 7 which is done over 6 to 8 weeks. Classroom teaching
and learning is supported by three hands-on sessions run by Greening Australia staff. Classes
are invited up to the new Sustainability Learning Centre in Mt Nelson, near Hobart, as well as
Greening Australia staff visiting the school. The outcomes support the National Australian
Curriculum and are outlined in detail further in the document.
Explore. Inspire. Change. Taking part in Greening Australia‟s education program will have you exploring your natural
environment, allowing you to be inspired by the beauty and complexity of the natural world
at your feet. To spark you to change behaviour, ultimately taking action and making more
positive choices for the natural world and the humans on it.
How to use this Resource Pack This pack is a collection of lessons, ideas and thinking stems to aid in classroom planning when undertaking the Water for Life inquiry. Please read through at the start of planning. Further suggestions and links are located at the back of the pack.
Enquiries Kara Spence
Education Coordinator
www.greenhub.org.au
03 6223 6377
Acknowledgments This pack is a selection of activities and resources by Greening Australia Tasmania and other
sources. Other sources are noted where used.
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Contents Water for Life Sessions and Outcomes 4 Australian National Curriculum 5 Setting the Scene: Australia’s Water 6 Water Cycle Worksheet 7 Water Puzzle 8 Water in a Box 9 What is a Catchment? 10 After Session 1 12 Introducing the Water Users 14 Thinkers Keys Worksheet 15 After Session 2 16 Water Alive 17 Build your own Bio Water Filter 19 After Session 3 21 Catchment Carers 22 Web Links - Teachers 23 Web Links - Students 24
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Water for Life Greening Australia conducted sessions: Sessions are 90 minutes in length and are conducted outside as a first choice. A detailed plan
can be provide on request.
1. What is a Catchment?
> Location: the school grounds on an undulating area, and in the classroom
> School provides: extra iPads if available, pencils
> Ouctomes:
o Understanding of the water cycle and how it works.
o Understanding how a catchment works and how water flows.
o Understanding of the scientific method used for experiments.
o Introduction to your catchment boundaries.
2. Introducing the Water Users & the Water Managers
> Location: the Sustainability Learning Centre, Mt Nelson, near Hobart
> School provides: transport to Mt Nelson*
> Ouctomes:
o Awareness of the different ways we use water in our everyday life.
o Understanding how water flows and what travels with it.
o Understanding the role of pollution on river health.
o Awareness of the complexity of water management for healthy lives.
3. Water Alive
> Location: a local waterway, a good size, moderately healthy, river or creek
> School provides: bus transport to waterway if needed.
> Ouctomes:
o Understanding the food web and food chains.
o Awareness of the role water bugs play in the ecosystem.
o Understanding how to classify water bugs and other insects.
o Awareness of how water bugs indicate river health.
* Where a school cannot travel to Mt Nelson, a choice of 2 sessions will be delivered by Greening Australia. A detailed plan will be provided as a framework to deliver the third by school staff.
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Supports Australian National Curriculum:
Year 7 Science: > There are differences within and between groups of organisms; classification helps organise this
diversity. (ACSSU111)
> Interactions between organisms can be described in terms of food chains and food webs; human
activity can affect these interactions. (ACSSU112)
> Water is an important resource that cycles through the environment. (ACSSU222)
> Science and technology contribute to finding solutions to a range of contemporary issues; these
solutions may impact on other areas of society and involve ethical considerations. (ACSHE120)
> Science understanding influences the development of practices in areas of human activity such as
industry, agriculture and marine and terrestrial resource management. (ACSHE121)
> People use understanding and skills from across the disciplines of science in their occupations.
(ACSHE224)
> Communicate ideas, findings and solutions to problems using scientific language and
representations using digital technologies as appropriate. (ACSIS133)
Year 7 Geography: > The classification of environmental resources and the forms that water takes as a resource.
(ACHGK037)
> The ways that flows of water connect places as it moves through the environment and the way this
affects places. (ACHGK038)
> The quantity and variability of Australia‟s water resources compared with those in other continents.
(ACHGK039)
> Present findings, arguments and ideas in a range of communication forms selected to suit a
particular audience and purpose; using geographical terminology and digital technologies as
appropriate. (ACHGS053)
> Reflect on their learning to propose individual and collective action in response to a contemporary
geographical challenge, taking account of environmental, economic and social considerations, and
predict the expected outcomes of their proposal. (ACHGS054)
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Setting the Scene: Australia’s Water Resources Start with this setting the scene with a slide show presentation. Greening Australia has a 63
slide Powerpoint of images and facts you can download from www.greenhub.org.au. It is
recommended that you play the show in full to instrumental music of your choice. It is used to
evoke passion on this topic and why we should care for our waterways and water health.
Discuss or set work tasks as you choose to start this inquiry.
Source: adapted from The Water Source, Williamstown High School, Victoria
Water Cycle
It is always good to review and explain the water cycle with the class. Ask students to visit
www.greenhub.org.au find the water page and click on Check This Out links to find interactive
water cycles and videos. We like this one too:
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Water Cycle Terms – Mix and Match Worksheet
Condensation
Precipitation
Transpiration
Infiltration
Evaporation
the emission of water vapour
from the leaves of plants
the changing of a liquid into a
gas, often under the influence
of heat. It is the opposite of
condensation
the process by which
atmospheric water vapour
liquefies to form a fog, clouds,
or the like, or solidifies to form
snow or hail
the falling products of
condensation in the
atmosphere, such as rain,
snow or hail
the downward movement of
water through soil
Source: The Water Source, Williamstown High School, Victoria.
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The water puzzle – worksheet and task Made by year 7 students on the water cycle. You can use this one for fun. Have students
create their own word find and share around the class.
P F V D S M D Z A J I H W D E
R V G Y Y W R G P K S J R L P
H E T R E E S Q E Y Q O C N V
D W T X M R E P L L U Y P O V
A R A A E Z D T F G C S V I Y
O V Y T W B E H H R Z E I T P
U N A C M E X T E V K A O A Y
X W I Q Y X N T H D T W N S R
P S U N T C A R A U V A Z N S
M X A Z L W L W U W Y T X E D
D D I K A E R E L O K E E D U
W E T C Y C L E Y R B R Q N O
D Q J W X X U Y S P R L Q O L
S T N A L P U E Q X T F E C C
A N Y A A S C L Z G N F Y M T
Source: The Water Source, Williamstown High School, Victoria with permission.
CLOUDS
CONDENSATION
DROUGHT
DRYCYCLE
ELNINO
MELBOURNEWATER
PLANTS
SEAWATER
TREES
WATER
WATERCYCLE
WETCYCLE
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Water in a Box Activity
Play music in background to signify how long they have at each station. Stop music when it is
time to move to the next station.
Each station has 1 or 2 items which you choose that are related to water or more specifically,
catchments. The small groups need to sit quietly and reflect on the question on the butchers
paper beside each box. Each group writes a response to the question on the BOTTOM of the
paper. Once their response is completed they fold up the bottom end to hide their answer. The
next group responds and folds up their answer until all groups are finished.
At the end the last group at that station reads out all the responses and/or summarises the
responses.
Using the „Thinkers Keys‟ these questions are written on the top of the butcher‟s paper and
placed beside each station water box.
> List 5 commonalities between these 2 items.
> Describe 5 different uses for this item.
> Name 5 things you would never use these items for.
> List 5 disadvantages of using this item.
> Suggest a new invention for using this item.
> When do you predict this item will be a common household object? Why?
> Draw a quick picture, as a group, of this item in action.
> True of False? Justify why you think this is true or false.
> The answer is 100,000 litres. What is the question?
> If this was common knowledge, how would the world be different?
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What is a Catchment? - Leading into Session 1
Where Does the Water Flow? (Source: Cool Australia. www.coolaustralia.org)
Use this activity to find out what students already know and if they have any misconceptions
about water. You may wish to keep the activity so it can be reviewed and changed by students
reflecting their new understanding.
Activity Outline Review with students how a flow chart is designed. Ask students to design a flow chart that
tracks the flow of water from its source, e.g., from a dam to the way they as individuals use
water and the disposal of waste water. The flow chart can have as many boxes as they wish
but they only have a specific amount of allocated time (e.g. 5 or 10 minutes). The flow chart
will need to have:
1. The source of the water.
2. The passage of the water before it gets to the student.
3. What the water is used for.
4. And if some of the water is disposed of, where does it go?
Once completed, compile a single flow chart as a whole class, using the students' ideas. As
extension you can make a class poster.
Year 2, St Bridget’s Catholic School
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Your River
Make a poster drawing answering - what is a river? There is no right and wrong here, just to
see what is created.
The poster will show the life and uses of a river. Encourage creativity, colouring, as much
detail as possible.
Water Mind Map
Make a group list or mind map of how water is used. (e.g., drinking, washing, watering,
hydropower, swimming, growing things)
Water Words
Make a list of water words in groups in 2 minutes. Compare words by one team reading out
their words. If other teams got that word it is not counted. Winning team is the team with the
most original words.
Examples:
trickle, flush, river, pool, aquatic, waterfall, wet, rain, hail, lake, lagoon, ocean, pond, creek, sea, drip, rainbow, icicle, stream, wetlands, catchment, vapour, spray, puddle, irrigate, sprinkle, sweat, swim, pool, steam, waterproof, float bath, fountain, swamp, dive, drain, wade, reservoir, snorkel, whirlpool, moisture, juicy, watery, wash, drain
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After Session 1: Back in the classroom
Build a catchment model outside Use any materials you like, we suggest:
> School sand pit (or a paddle pool or waterproof tray)
> Tubs of gravel, sand, garden soil, mulch
> Building blocks, sheet of plastic
> Aluminium foil
> Stick
> Watering can
Use the gravel, sand, soil and mulch in layers. Use foil for drains and plastic for roads. Use
building blocks for houses and sticks for trees. Leave space for a lake at the bottom of the hill.
Discuss what will happen when you water the catchment.
Your Catchment
Colour and label the template of a river catchment provided. Ask students to draw as many
different things they would find in a river catchment. Have them draw the boundaries of the
sub-catchments and add where their school may be onto the diagram. Source: Landcare for
Kids. Junior Landcare.
Share and Compare your Soil Testing worksheets Think-Pair-Share. Among the class see what results other groups had and discuss why the
results where the same or different.
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Introducing the Water Users: Leading into Session 2
Mind Map – Our Catchment As a whole class brainstorm words, people, issues, plants, animals, things in your catchment
to create a mind map on your catchment.
Assessment idea: Have students create an individual mind map on the word ‘Catchment’ at the start of the inquiry and at the completion and compare.
Thinkers Keys
Tony Ryan‟s Thinkers Keys are an excellent resource to get students thinking outside the
square about complex issues.
Use these thinking stems however you like, as a workbook task or as a base for a poster
design, new innovation, power point presentation, short film, podcast. It is limitless.
Don‟t forget you can post your work, or share what you are doing via our blog on
www.greenhub.org.au.
Play Catchment Detox and /or Water Island
Learn through these fantastic online interactive games, developed by ABC and the water
industry respectively. Interact as a whole class or in pairs or individually. These fantastic
resources and more can be found as links from our website on the Water for Life page.
www.greenhub.org.au/waterforlife
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Thinkers Keys Worksheet
The Reverse Name 10 things you would never see in your Catchment. Give a reason for each thing.
The Disadvantages Write 5 dot points about the disadvantages of the Catchment Care.
The Alphabet List words associated with your Catchment from A to Z.
The Forced Relationship How might a person working as a water managers use the following items? A straw, a plastic bag and a stick.
The What If What if the water in your catchment stopped flowing down river?
The Different Uses Describe 5 different uses for collecting rainfall data. Explain the advantage for each use.
The Question
The answer is Care for your Catchment, what are 10 possible questions?
The Commonality
Write 10 dot points about the commonality between your local waterway and the Derwent River in Hobart.
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After Session 2: Back in the Classroom
Student Worksheet – PMI We know now that there are some great things about creating a water management and caring
for our catchment but there are also some challenges. What is interesting about the problems
you identify?
List creative solutions you can suggest to overcome your “Minus” in your “Interesting”
column.
Fill in with at least one comment under each heading.
Plus Minus Interesting
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Water Alive: Leading into Session 3
Ask an Expert online @ greenhub
Find the answers to those burning questions you have about catchments, water management,
and river life. Ask the experts working in this field every day, how they came to work with
water, what they like and dislike about their jobs.
Go to www.greenhub.org.au type in your question, name and age and receive a reply
posted on the website within a week!
Meet the Experts from Hydro Tasmania:
Terry Ives
Generation Technician (Electrical)
As a generation technician I am employed to operate, maintain and improve
Hydro Power-Generating plants, mainly in the Mersey-Forth generating area, which is located
in North-West Tasmania. This involves day-to-day operations,
maintenance, equipment upgrades and fault-response, as
well as after-hours fault-response activities.
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Dr Cindy Hull Avian Ecologist, Hydro Tasmania Specialist
I study the birds at new sites for wind farms, to estimate
the risk of impacts to those birds. As a result of my study,
I may then suggest changes to the design of the wind
farm to reduce its impact on birds. I also monitor the birds
once the wind farm has been built to see if there are
impacts on the bird population, and if there are, I
investigate and implement management strategies to
minimise the impact.
Christina Nebel Cloud Seeding Operations Supervisor
Cloud Seeding?! What is that? Find out more about Christina and her work by posting your
questions on http://www.greenhub.org.au/ask-expert/
Find out more about cloud seeding visit at www.hydro.com.au/water/cloud-seeding
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Build your own Bio Water Filter Source: Water Filtration (adapted from Scott Foresman, Discover the Wonder) Student have an understanding of the importance of clean water for healthy living and how the water managers work to ensure we have enough clean water to grow food and use in our homes and workplaces. This experiment brings awareness of the important role plants play in cleaning our water and why a healthy catchment is about the land the water runs through just as much as the waterway.
Materials: You will need
Clear plastic containers or cups (2 per group)
About 4 litres of dirty water (you can just mix water with potting soil)
About ten 2 litre bottles cut in half (you may choose to cut them beforehand) (one per group)
Gravel and Sand (the soil plants grow in)
Charcoal (explain how plants are carbon)
Cotton balls (acts as „transpiration‟ through plants leaves, in this model)
Centimetre rulers
Display the gallon of dirty water at the front of the class. Tell the students that they are to
design a prototype of a water filter to solve the problem of the dirty water using only the
materials displayed.
Problem: You have been given dirty water which needs to be cleaned.
Solution: Design and build a water filter out of the materials presented.
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Procedure:
1. Allow your water sample to settle undisturbed while you are following the other directions.
2. Cut your bottle nearly in half so that the bottom part is slightly bigger than the top part. Keep the bottom of the bottle to use in step 7. 3. Put a layer of cotton about 3 cm thick into the neck of the bottle. The cotton should fill the narrow part of the neck and go just past the part where the bottle widens. 4. Put a layer of charcoal about 1 cm thick on top of the cotton. 5. Put a layer of gravel about 3 cm thick on top of the charcoal. 6. Put a layer of sand about 3 cm thick on top of the gravel. 7. Place the neck of the bottle over the bottom of the bottle you put aside in step 2. 8. Look at your container of water. Is there some dirt floating on the top or some sediment stuck on the bottom? Skim whatever you can off of the top with a spoon and discard. Leave the sediment alone. 9. Pour the rest of the water into a plastic cup. Leave any sediment behind in the first container. 10. Take the water in the plastic cup and slowly pour it through your filter. You may pour it
through the filter as many times as you wish.
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Review Food Webs and Food Chains
Preparation: Copy and laminate food web cards from Tasmanian Parks and Wildlife Service
at http://www.parks.tas.gov.au/file.aspx?id=13638
Who has heard of a Food Pyramid? We know there are animals that eat only meat (carnivores), animals that eat both meat and plants (omnivores) and animals that eat only plants (herbivores). What about a Food Chain? Hand out plant and animal cards (source: Tas. Parks & Wildlife Service) and ask students to make food chains based on who eats who, they need to do so without talking. Food Webs Listening skills are important, as each person will need to ask who eats them and pass the yarn to that person. Students stand in a circle and start with the bottom of the food chain, pass the yarn to something that eats them. Next time start with the top of a food chain. There will be a web of yarn across the circle - creating an Ecosystem.
Changes to the Ecosystem
Explain to students that some changes are going to take place. Read scenario cards and take action as required.
Scenario 1 Not far from this ecosystem (food web) one of the local landowners has been having difficulty with her apple farm. Many pests have come in and are ea=ng her apples before she can pick them to sell. She has decided to spray the orchard to kill the aphids and moths. The spray blows over into your ecosystem and has killed all the insects, not just the aphids and moths. (All the insects sit down) What will happen to those connected to the insects? Ok all stand up again.
Scenario 2 The Tasmanian Devil has been suffering terribly from the Facial Tumour Disease. Your ecosystem has been free of the disease because you are very remote and isolated. However, a new road has been put through and has opened up the area to neighbouring Tasmanian Devils. The FTD is passed on to the Devils in this area through territorial warring: fighting, scratching, biting. Your genetic diversity is not strong enough to fight off this cancer and sadly the Tasmanian Devils have died. (All devils sit down). What will happen to those connected to the Devil?
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Scenario 3
It has been a long hot, dry summer, which has been very hard on the whole ecosystem. Autumn is here and this brings a change in weather: a large lightning storm has passed through at midday. Lightning has struck a tree and started a bush fire. The fire was contained but it burnt off all the small plants. (All the plants must sit down.) Quickly we can see that all life is interconnected in an ecosystem.
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After Session 3: Back in the Classroom
Water Bug live on the web
See close up images and some video of water bugs, and learn more about them from
www.thewaterbug.net
Got a water bug with no name? Try posting the photo of it on
https://www.facebook.com/waterbugface and an expert will try to tell you what it is!
Giant Water Bugs Make colourful and larger than life water bugs from different coloured play doh. Be sure to ask
students to include all the features found on an insect and include as many different features
as possible.
Water Bugs from Waste Or make small size water bugs to add to your catchment model in the classroom, out of old
materials that are found in the recycling. Cut up plastic bottles and tops, colour cardboard, use
sticks and nut for other features.
Become a Catchment Carer
Have students draw a stick figure of them in the middle of a plain piece of paper. Write
Catchment Carer underneath it. Write all the words around that figure of you that you think a
catchment carer would do. Share it with a partner and add new words you may have not
thought of to your paper. As a whole class write up all those words on the shared board and
see how many are the same and how many are different.
Catchment Carers Celebrate Now is the chance to collate all the things you have discovered about your own river in your
catchment. Add photos you took, drawings you made, data you collected to your classroom
model or poster. Present your final work to other classes and/or the school. Now you are an
expert on your local waterway, it is yours to look after and share the magic of the catchment
with others.
Create Catchment Carer badges made by the students for the students and adults. Have a
parents and families night to inspire others to become Catchment Carers, like you. Don‟t forget
to send Greening Australia photos of your badges and an update on your catchment to post on
our blog for all to see your positive action! www.greenhub.org.au
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Going Further: Catchment Carers Google Map Share your knowledge of your catchment with the World Wide Web! As a class choose the
best photos and drawings and upload them onto our shared google map where all schools in
Tasmania are adding their catchment carer news and photos.
The Catchment Carers map is at http://goo.gl/maps/2oQ86
You will need to create a Picasa account to store photos online before you can attach them to
google maps (you can‟t upload them directly from your pc). It is free and easy to use, you will
need to download the software from www.picasa.google.com.au
It is easy to upload photos by dragging and dropping them onto Picasa web albums. To attach
an image to Google Map you need to right click on the image in Picasa (or any image on the
web) and choose „Copy Image URL‟ then in the maps make sure you select the red „EDIT‟
button so that you can create placemarks, select the placemark icon and click on the map to
create the placemark, then in the placemark is an „Insert Image‟ icon which you click then
paste the URL.
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Web Links
Teacher Resouces
Link
Name
What does it
contain?
How can it be
used?
www.greenhub.org.au Greening Australia
Education
Fast Facts /
videos/ Ask an
Expert / blogs
Activities / sharing /
planning
www.projectwet.org
Project Wet Water
Education for
Teachers
Download
Resources
Ideas
Planning / Activities
www.landlearn.net.au/curriculu
m/OtoS.htm
LandLearn -
Curriculum
Activities
3 links
Lesson
activities/poems/
questions
http://dailyinfographic.com/wp-
content/uploads/2011/11/10-
Ways-to-Stop-Wasting-
Water.jpg
Every Drop Counts Image/
information
Facts and top tips
image
http://coolaustralia.org/curriculu
m-materials/#body-wrapper
coolaustralia.org -
Water Multiple links Activities/worksheets
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cW
Grok_imJ0
Greening Australia
- River Recovery
Programme
Video Information/facts/
projects/campaign
www.geographychallenge.nsw.
edu.au/Default.aspx
Geography
Challenge interactive site
Facts/information/tak
e action/get involved
www.environment.nsw.gov.au/s
ustainableschools/teach/waterte
ach.htm
NSW Government
- Environment &
Heritage
links Resources/activities
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Student Resouces - adult guidance required for year 2
Link Name
What does it
contain?
How can it be
used?
www.greenhub.org.au
Greening Australia
Education
Fast Facts /
videos/ Ask an
Expert / blogs
Activities / sharing /
planning
www.angelamorelli.com/water/ Water Facts and
information
Visual resource with
information and facts
www.imagineallthewater.eu/EN
Imagine All The
Water Interactive site
facts/information/
ideas
www.watersecure.com.au/pub/s
ite-tour-and-education/water-
island-game
Water Secure -
Water Island
Interactive site
with game
game/information/
interactive
www.catchmentdetox.net.au/pla
y-game/
ABC Science -
Catchment Detox
Interactive
game
game/information/
interactive
http://apps.southeastwater.com.
au/games/education_kidsroom_
wcactivity.asp
South East Water -
The Water Cycle
Game
Interactive
game
game/information/
interactive
http://environment.nationalgeog
raphic.com/environment/freshw
ater/global-water-footprint/
National
Geographic -
Environment
Interactive site facts/information
www.generationawake.eu/en
European
Commission -
Generation Awake
Interactive site facts/information/
ideas/tips
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Link Name
What does it contain?
How can it be used?
http://coolaustralia.org/ca_topic/
water/
coolaustralia.org -
Water Multiple links
Videos/images/fact
sheets/articles/news
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zN
dbj3PbX6o Water Facts Video Information/facts
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ys
wL4dIDQuk Water Cycle Video Facts/images
www.savewater.com.au/mission
-h2o-game/
Mission H2O
Game
Interactive
game
Facts/information/
testing
www.savewater.com.au/ Savewater! Multiple links
Facts/information/
games/competitions/
what's on?
www.sydneywater.com.au/Educ
ation/SecondaryStudents/index.
cfm
Sydney Water Interactive site Facts/information/get
involved/careers